Improved envelope for bottles



1. SEITHEN.

Apparatus for Making Cases for Bottles.

Patented Feb. 12, 1856.

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JNO. SEITHEN, OF OOBLENTZ, PRUSSIA.

IMPROVED ENVELOPE FOR BOTTLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4,255, dated February 12, 1856.

To all whom it may concern: 1

- Be it known that I, J OHN SEITHEN, of Coblentz, Prussia, have invented Improvements in the Manufacture of Cases or Envelopes for Covering Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in an arrangement of apparatus by which lengths of rush, straw, or other suitable material may be readily tied together, so as to form cases or covers to protect bottles from breakage when packed. For this purpose I take equal lengths of rush, straw, or, other suitable material and confine them at one end with a ring or cap, which I then place over the neck end of amold ormandrel corresponding in form to the bottle for which the ease or coveris intended. The mold is fixed to a frame, and its lower part is surrounded by a ring which is capable of being raised and lowered by the operator. The cap being placed on the mold and retained by any suitable contrivance, the lengths of rush or straw surrounding the mold or form are then tied tightly near the middle of their length below a movable elastic ring on the mold. The.

ring surrounding the lower part of themold is then raised by depressing atreadle, by which the lower ends of the rushes or straws will be turned up over the cord and around the mold or form, where they are again tied tightly around it, near the upper part. The cap may then be removed, and the upper ends may, if necessary, be tied near their extremities. The

'case or cover may then be removed from the mold or form, the elastic ring in being drawn off contracting within a groove on the mold or form, so as to release itfrom the ease or cover; or in place of forming the cases or envelopes separately the bottle to be covered may be substituted for the mold or form and the rush or straw permanently secured thereto.

Having thus stated the nature of myinvention, I will proceed to describe the manner of peforming the same.

The drawing represents a side elevation of a machine combined according to theinvention.

A A is the framing of the machine, at the upper part of which is fixed a rack, 13, into a step or notch, in which the upper end of the strut O enters, when the hollow cap D is brought into position over the top of the pattern E, as is shown in the drawing. The cap D is-fixed to the lever F, which is hinged at G, and it will be raised out of the way, when desired, by the weight and chain H,when the cover or capD is required to be lifted off from abovethe pattern E. The pattern. E is screwed onto the standard I, affixed to the block J; and it may be remarked that in place of a pattern it will be evident that the parts might be modified so as to receive a bottle in place of the upper part of the pattern E introduced.

In the pattern E is formed a groove, E, into which an elastic ring, of india-rubber or other suitable material, K, may contract, as is indicated by red lines in the drawing; but when in use the elastic ring K is expanded, and is moved down to a position on the pattern E below the groove, as is shown by black lines,

such ring being brought down a distance according to the length of envelope or cover which is intended to be made. Lis aring carried by a frame, as shown, and it is capable of being raised by atreadle, M, so as to be brought into the position shown by the red lines, by

which the lower endsvof the rushes, straws, or other suitable material will be raised up into the position shown in the drawing.

In using the machine the upper ends of the rushes, straws, or other materials are spread round the neck of the pattern E, and in surficient quantities to cover the larger diameter of the pattern, andthis is done when the ring L is at it lowest position, and the lower ends of the rushes or other materials will cover the exterior of the ring L. The cap D, whichhas been previously out of theway, is to be brought down and the strut placed under one of the notches in the rack above, so as to hold the cap in D in position.- The elastic ring K is placed in its position below the notch E before commencing to make an envelope or case for a bottle. The rushes or other materials used are to be tied in under the ring K by a string, N. The ring L is then to be raised into the position shown by red lines, by which thelower ends of the rushes or other materials will be folded upward and be held in position, as is indicated by the drawing, for their being further tied-in by strings at the points shown by the dotted lines 1 l and22. The capDis then raised out of the way by unstepping the strut, and the upper ends of the rushes or other materials are to be tied tightly in by a string,

which will complete the process of making an invention, I would have it understood that envelope or case, and the same may be lifted What I claim isoff the pattern E, as shown by red lines in the The combination of mechanism and the makdrawing. In thnsnsing rusiies, straw,1 or other ing of envelopes for bottles, as herein described. suitable materials for ma ing enve opes or oases forbottles such materials will be in a damp JOHN SEITHEN state, when the nature of the materials require Witnesses: to be so, as is well understood. ARTHUR FINoH,

Having thus described the nature of my said H. E. FELLINGER. 

